Thieves Like Us - Bleed Bleed Bleed

"While their sound owes pretty heavy debts to the more sullen New Order moments, their fourth full-length, Bleed Bleed Bleed, finds them expanding their scope past "Blue Monday" with a slightly more shoegaze feel and a shift in lineup...(www.allmusic.com)

"...there's a newfound depth to the band on Bleed Bleed Bleed that gives these songs their own character; they sound more realized (and subsequently better written) than the by-the-numbers electro pop of earlier efforts. Before this album, the band was still steeped in DJ culture and their music suffered from the pull of too many disparate influences. The processed beats and Daft Punk-style moments are gone now, replaced with much subtler atmospheric shifts. Hints of indie rock à la the uneasy dreaminess of Blonde Redhead creep into "Fatima," while the late-night paranoia of "Your Love Runs Still" or the slinking title track put Thieves Like Us in the same bracket of catchy dark electro-pop as contemporaries like Nite Jewel or the Chromatics. Bleed Bleed Bleed is still more or less a screenplay for some film full of damaged characters who exist in an imagined, seedy Euro nightlife, but the songs feel free of artifice even at their most affected.... (Read More: http://www.allmusic.com)